Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07
BURDErTE.
now Poets Of Different States MIKE Their
Rhymes.


now Poets OF Different States MIKE Their
Rhymes.
Mr.. j. H. Williams, of Norristown, COM
plains that southern poetess rhymes 'corn'
and "gone." Well, that's correct that's a
good rhyme where the poem was written and
the author can't be responsible for the vagaries
of pronunciation all over America. In the
land Of tho cypress and myrtle, where they
say @coans and @goan," what is the matter
with making them rhymea Now in the en-
pire of Arkansas il q poet should write,
Tic asked you to give him kiss, did her
1t would trouble his New England collabora-
tor to end the next line of the couplet with
yesterday" but he of Arkansas goes calmly
and correctly on with,
No longer than jlst yistiddy.
So, also, the poet daown in Yarmouth can
rhyme Gloss" with "horse" and "calf" with
through" Moreover, any poet in the republic
outside of Pennsylvania inditing nn ode to q
well known railway in that state, would make
"reading" rhyme with BLEEDING" but the
people who live on the line Of the road would
use bedding" They do, too; the old fash
toned Pennsylvania Dutch kind, one feather
bed to sleep on, and three to cover with.) You
see the poet, dear Williams, rhymes by ear
and not by sight.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
"Alas," mournfully exclaims q Boston
clergyman. "the old fashioned way of max
ing love has passed away with our fathers"
In behalf of the young people Of this. genera
ton, we return thanks for this blessing. The
old fashioned way Of making love, as we
hoxya Poi
A man began, If we catch the rat, by making
love to his father in-law, whom he hated, and
his mother-in-law, whom he greatly feared.
He called his sweetheart Respected miss, " and
once in q while got a chance to touch her.
finger tips icily in dance as he teetered past
her like a stork on stills, for in such manner
Of jointless grace and frosty merriment,
children, did your grandsires dance tpro-
nounced dawnce). And for all this-what
Horace Greeley would call "Arctic circle Of
frigidity"-my son, your grandfather loved
your grandmother-soft and fragrant be the
"old fashioned roses" that bloom above her
no better, wot, than you do the girl you
feed ON indigestible caramels and corn starch
ice cream, while you fill her ears with the
most idiotic chatter that ever drove a sensible
man mad. Out! Out with you'll Out of my
sight and hearing! By Venus glove, If ever
again hear you talk to q girl as l overheard
you talk to Kitty Last night, I'll brain you
with something soft, if knew where to hit
you. After oil, may it not be that our fathers
wero not such half baked fools Us their sonsl
will read over few of my own old love
letters and see.
COMMENCEMENT IS OVER
The country, and incidentally the universe,
is safe for another year. We have been in
c,.oat rori1 b,,t o,,r Il puar boo boay tad
out, and not only so. but tho way to safety
has at the same time been so clearly indicated
that tho wayfaring man, though Mug
wump, need not err therein. An abyss of
frightful depth has lowered above us, over
shadowng oil this fair land with the deadly
blight of its malarial breath in accents that
chilled the heart with the Upas like touch of
its basilisk glance, that echoed from seq to
shore. But you have saved us, my boy: you
and your fellows have snatched us from this
living grave, whose hungry breakers dashed
their binding spray and wreathed their
angry flames in lurid tongues about our feet
You it is who in this month Of leafy June
have told us of "rhe Perils Of the Republic;"
".rhe Labor Problem;" "The Duty of the
Hour" "The Decay of Patriotism" @Worl
and Wages" 1.-THE Deterioration Of Man
hood" "rhe Labor Question:" "The Decline
"The Weakness of a Republican Form of
Government" labor and Capital" "The
Downfall of Liberty 1.-THE Labor Problem;
its Evils and their Remedy" Corruption in
Politics." "The Labor Problem and its Dan
gers" "Are we Free People," "The Labor
Problem National Menace" The peris
that beset our path you have shown US; but
you have also guided us into paths OF safety
You have told us of 1.-THE Only Way to Good
Government" "The Safety of the Republic;"
1.-THE True Mission of the Labor Reformcr;"
"Iteforms in the Ballot" "Thc Coming Man,
"The True Reformer;" 1.-THE Hope of Our
Country" "The Conservation of Popular
Government" Labor Reform;" "Tho Out.
look Of tho Hours" labor Agitation Bless
ing;" "Our Legacy for Our Children;" "What
we Owe to Posterity;" and your sisters have
nobly rushed to the rescue with assurances
that might brings out the Stars" and more
overthat "Man is the Arbiter Of His Own
Destiny" aWoman's Sphere" "The Influ-
cncc of Woman;" "Woman's Duty" "Wo-
man, the Hope of the World;' and Spring."
Heaven bless you, my children; you have
saved us; Heaven bless youi Come again,
next commencement.
Dit OF SCIENCE.
The malo wasp, the naturalist tells us, never
stings. But SO long as he and his sister are
twins and dress exactly alike this bit of
knowledge avaleth nothing to tho careless
man who does not know 1t is the lady who is
approaching him, until 1t be that she smiteth
him with her hustle What humanity de-
mands Of science in the case of the wasps is
tho invention of some prompter method of
distinguishing between Monsieur and Madam
wazzle at forty yards.
THE LITTLE ONE.
The little totring baby feet,
With faltering steps and slow,
With pattering echoes soft and sweet
sInto my heart they go;
They also CO. in grimy plays,
In muddy pools and dusty ways,
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